Seminar Leader:
Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
2024-2025
Saturday, October 5, 2024
“Metcalf’s Massacre: An Incident of Extreme Violence in the Pacific in 1790”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
Register by September 28 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
“Carbon Anomalies: Black Rice, Black Resistance, and Colonial South Carolina’s Low Carbon Footprint”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
RSVP by January 20 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
“American Affections: The Eighteenth-Century Marriages of Mary Noyes Silliman Dickinson”
USC, University Park Campus
RSVP by January 31 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
“Belts & Songs: Why the Cherokee went to War against the Colonies in 1776”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
RSVP by February 24 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
“‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer:’ Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stewart R. Smith Board Room
4:00 – 6:00 pm (PST)
RSVP by March 18 to receive pre-circulated materials.
This meeting is co-hosted by the Early Modern British History Seminar series.
Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside & George Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida
Thursday, April 17, 2025
“‘Ceremonies, Omens, and Superstitions Still Used by Some’: Approaches, Practices, and Collaborations in Timucua Language Translations”
USC, University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library, DML 241
4:30 – 6:30 pm (PST)
RSVP by April 10 to receive pre-circulated materials.
Image: Small Makuk, late 18th to early 19th century, birchbark and spruce root. Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
